SIDISrtVUU@IB!&!!"&#S@B9IV69P99I !%! %! ' 5 6 > # %< %< < */4$5 4+ ! 3 56- 57 4 *# 1234 / ,0 '+ ,-. * =9+$(**+=(!* 9 ,*= *!*;***= 83$ !+9* 90 , :+(;<9 !, *!=90* =9 ;(++*(0+($6 ,(**; !" . .". 6"!&!78 495: $ %'( $) R R !" # $ ! **+,( "# Q ! n day one of the launch of India’s ! Ohistoric nationwide vaccination drive against Covid-19, Delhi, Maharashtra and Haryana recorded % Q cases of adverse events — though none Q ! of them fatal — even as the Centre asserted that the inoculation drive was successfully conducted and no case of & ! post-vaccination hospitalisation report- ! ed so far. ! ' ! In Delhi, 52 healthcare workers developed minor adverse event follow- ! ! ! ing immunisation (AEFI), while 1 severe case was reported as per data & ! N O available from the Government. # ! Haryana recorded 13 adverse event +,- -. $/ $ ! cases following the immunisation. ! $ '0# ! Officials from Maharashtra said * + ! ! " ##$$ % ' they are further investigating the 14 developed Covaxin of Bharat Biotech cases of adverse events. for restricted emergency use in the **+,( people in just the first phase. He Agnani said during a press briefing At some sites like RML hospital in country. ", - & saluted scientists for developing the here organised late evening after the the national Capital, a section of doc- The Resident Doctors’ Association + ndia launched its mammoth vac- vaccines in such a short span of time. drive was wrapped up for the day. Of tors were apprehensive of an adverse (RDA) of the Central Government Icination drive on Saturday to bring The PM cautioned people to three lakh planned to be inoculated, event as they doubted the efficacy of the hospital, RML refused to take the shot ! # the pandemic under control with two ensure that they take both the doses around 1,91,181 beneficiaries were Covaxin developed by the Bharat and requested the Medical " locally-produced vaccines — at one month’s gap and show given the shot of Covid-19 vaccines Biotech, which is yet to complete the Superintendent to vaccinate them with Covishield and Covaxin — with patience as the country begins to on first day involving 16,755 per- phase three trials. Oxford Covid-19 vaccine Covishield. - nearly two lakh out of tragetted three give the antidote to its huge popu- sonnel at 3,351 vaccination ses- The Drugs Controller General of In a letter to the MS, the associa- lakh taking shot against the pathogen lation. sions. India (DCGI) had earlier this month tion said the resident doctors were “a on the first day on Saturday. “Don’t make the mistake of tak- Agnani said that Covid-19 vac- approved Oxford Covid-19 vaccine bit apprehensive” about Covaxin and O ! Launching the “world’s largest ing one dose and then forgetting cines Covaxin and Covishield Covishield, manufactured by the might not participate in the immuni- vaccination drive” against Covid-19, about dose two and don’t forget (developed by Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute, and indigenously sation drive in large numbers. Modi congratulated citizens and sci- coronavirus appropriate behaviour Serum Institute of India (SII) respec- entists for the feat but cautioned peo- after getting the dose. The patience tively) were given at 3,351 session 33 !O ple against being careless and not tak- with which you fought coronavirus, across the country. % ! $R & ing precautions after taking the first show the same patience during vac- #N / # - ! dose of the vaccination. cination now,” Modi said. & ## # # $ The Prime Minister also alerted As the PM kicked off the vaccine people against the rumours spread rollout with a click of a button, a # about the vaccines. He said Indian video message played the Sanskrit ' ( ❝ '()*)* # vaccines are the “cheapest and the chant — sarve bhavantu sukhinah, Serum Institute CEO Adar ( ## . & best in the world”. sarve santu niramaya (All be happy, Poonawalla was administered the **+,( #$ # % # Modi, in a televised address all be free of illness). first dose of the Covishield coron- # before the vaccine rollout, said there The Covid-19 vaccination drive avirus vaccine on Saturday afternoon, he Drugs Controller General of India K are several nations whose entire was successfully conducted on the hours after Prime Minister Narendra T(DCGI) has given approval to Dr Reddy’s population is less than 3 crore, but first day, Additional Secretary in the Modi launched India’s nationwide Laboratories to conduct phase 3 clinical trials Q India will be vaccinating as many Union health Ministry Manohar vaccination drive. of Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate, Sputnik ❝ )) *() * ' %%% N O V, in the country. **)+ . The phase 3 trial will be conducted on 1,500 N '/# #' N subjects as part of the randomised, double- % % O ( ) * $ blind, parallel group, placebo controlled study in India, Dr Reddy said in a statement here on %$ (# # Friday. # ) $ & Earlier, the Data and Safety Monitoring $ % # Board (DSMB) reviewed the safety data from the phase 2 clinical trials of the vaccine and rec- ❝ (*),-'*'.+ # & % ' & ing repeal of the farm laws. ommended phase 3 recruitment. In its report, 0# 1 ##2 In an affidavit, the BKU the DSMB concluded that no safety concerns %$( **+,( ( %Q (Lokshakti) said the principle of natural were identified and the study met the primary ( &# !& Q justice is going to be violated as those endpoints of safety. # %( dead owl in the Delhi & & % R appointed to the four-member com- Dr Reddy’s Laboratories co-chairman and Azoo has been infected mittee “have already supported these MD GV Prasad said, “This is an important mile- with bird flu as the samples **+,( laws”. stone in the progress of this pivotal clinical trial / were found positive for H5N8 “It is important to mention here of the vaccine. We expect to commence phase , avian influenza virus under he Bhartiya Kisan Union Lokshakti with great regret that the principle of 3 study within this month and will continue to ❝ /-0*'"- " RT-PCR test done by ICAR- Tapproached the Supreme Court on natural justice is going to be violated fast-track our efforts to bring in a safe and effi- 2-** *(* 2 National Institute of High Saturday, requesting it to remove the by making these persons as members cacious vaccine for the Indian population”. )+ # ! Security Animal Disease remaining three members of a com- of the committee.... how they will hear In September 2020, Dr Reddy’s partnered # (NIHSAD), Bhopal, on Friday, mittee it had set up to hold talks with all farmers on equal parameters when with the Russian Direct Investment Fund to officials said on Saturday. the farmers protesting against the three they have already supported these conduct the clinical trials of the Sputnik V vac- %3(# “The zoo witnessed the contentious farm laws. laws,” it said. cine and for its distribution rights in India. # # 0" ! death of a brown fish owl in The BKU (Lokshakti) has request- The union also sought dismissal of ! its captivity. Its cloacal, tra- ed the court to nominate people to the a plea of the Central Government, filed Q cheal and ocular swabs were committee who can do the job “on the through the Delhi Police, seeking an & sent to the animal husbandry basis of mutual harmony”. injunction against the proposed trac- ! Q unit of the Delhi Government The BKU (Lokshakti) is one of the tor march or any other kind of protest 0 for serological examination,” 40-odd farmer unions spearheading the by farmers that could disrupt the gath- - ! zoo Director Ramesh Pandey agitation on various border points of ering and celebrations of the Republic ," 1 / said. Delhi for about 50 days now, demand- Day on January 26. " ! "# M ! -- M **+,( Manohar Lal Khattar were among those who mourned Usha’s death. & % t was neither the age, nor the way The Pioneer CEO Shobori Ito go. Usha Srivastava, 59, who Ganguly described Usha as a “valu- & headed the Hindi Pioneer since its able” colleague who also cared for N OM birth in 2011, passed away at 11.30 everyone around her. “I find it so dif- at the Max hospital, Saket, in New ficult to come to terms with her pass- Delhi on Saturday. ing away. She was such a noble soul,” She left behind a grieving fami- she said. & ly, shell-shocked colleagues, a large When her wait for a liver donor & number of friends, well-wishers, ended on December 25 after nearly 0 and acquaintance who would found a fortnight of a wait during which she